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To: Dale Baker who wrote (60045)	4/19/2008 2:43:26 PM
From: Katelew	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542938

Falling back on that is an easy out, when the Clinton camp should have been asking why they were losing so many primaries to the inexperienced upstart SC was early in the campaign. Kate, you ignore the possibility that we listened to what the Clintons said then and drew our own conclusions I would imagine that people all drew immediate first impressions and interpretations....that's what always happens with a political event or statement, et. But the press then comes along and serves to define the event for itself. Then people will either stick to their first impression, change their minds, re-evalutate how important or not so important the thing is and so on. The press has and still is trying to do this with regard to Rev. Wright. When I heard Clinton's statement about Jesse Jackson performance in SC, I only heard the truth being stated. Everyone knew Obama was going to probably win and win big in states with large AA populations. That just goes without saying and doesn't imply a repudiation of Hillary. Now I did, however, recognize it as a gaffe and thought 'not good, friend'. It was dismissive and somewhat belittling, just plain rude if nothing else. The loser in the whole thing, I thought, was Jackson. What I kept hearing was the press claiming that Clinton was being racist by equating Obama with Jackson, as though Jackson was inferior or reprehensible or something. I thought the press was really insulting Jackson in a roundabout way. And Jackson did at one point make that kind of statement, too. At any rate, do you think either of the Clintons are true racists?